Kaushik Lakshmikanth
Senior Software Engineer at Highnote
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolKaushik Lakshmikanth is a Senior Software Engineer in San Francisco with 10 years of experience building full‑stack systems and developer tooling. He currently works on the Developer Experience team at Highnote and previously led GraphQL platform and DX efforts at Twitter to accelerate product development velocity. Kaushik specializes in GraphQL as an API platform and frontend infrastructure, pairing hands‑on frontend/build expertise with backend tooling. He’s an open-source contributor who modernized twitter-text’s JavaScript packaging and refactored internals to produce smaller, standalone builds—demonstrating a practical focus on build performance and distributability. Combining a Master’s from Ohio State with research and teaching experience, he brings methodical, developer-centric rigor to large production systems.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, 8.84 GPA, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, 8.84 GPA at R. V. College of Engineering, BangaloreMaster’s Degree, Computer Science, Master’s Degree, Computer Science at The Ohio State University
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Github Skills (8)
javascript10
javascripts10
build-automation10
package-management9
node-js9
angular-routing6
requirejs6
angularjs6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
twitter/twitter-text
Dec 2017 - Mar 2020
Twitter Text Libraries. This code is used at Twitter to tokenize and parse text to meet the expectations for what can be used on the platform.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 25 commits, 18 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Kaushik primarily worked on building standalone JavaScript packages for the twitter-text library. Their contributions included modifications to the library's core functionalities. They also refactored the code to use substring instead of `startsWith` and published standalone versions of the lib. This demonstrates a focus on improving the library's build process and ensuring it is up-to-date and easily distributable.
emojiobjective-ctokenizeexpectationsruby
kaushlakers/punycode.js
Jan 2018 - Mar 2020
A robust Punycode converter that fully complies to RFC 3492 and RFC 5891.
Contributions:2 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 2 months
rfcpunycodeconverter
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